Tag: 500 years of Christianity

Titled “First Easter Mass in the Philippines,” the painting will be displayed in the planned Cultural Heritage Museum of the diocese

The bishops admitted that Filipinos "have obviously not always succeeded” in accepting the good and rejecting the evil brought by Spain

'Let this year be a year of looking back in history so that we can understand better who we are in the present as communities of disciples'

PHLPost released the stamps ahead of the celebration on Limasawa Island in Southern Leyte province on March 31

It wouldn’t be an exercise in exaggeration to say that the formation of our history is in itself a struggle

The battle in Mactan wasn’t so much a paradigm of class struggle but a show of force between two established and wealthy dominions

By Pigafetta’s account, the indios he saw were more than mere “savages” living on trees or caves

"[W]e are celebrating because it was the first time we saw foreigners in our native land,” said the president

To dramatize the celebration, the Spanish training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano raised its sails and anchored off the coast of Guiuan

The jubilee year declared by the Church should remind the faithful that part of their mission is to be good stewards of God’s creation